SWIRL'12: The Second Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval in Lorne

The purpose of the Second Strategic Workshop in Information Retrieval in Lorne was
to explore the long-range issues of the
Information Retrieval field, to recognize challenges that are on -- or even over -- the horizon, to
build consensus on some of the key challenges, and to disseminate the resulting
information to the research community.
The intent is that this description of open problems will help to inspire researchers
and graduate
students to address the questions, and will provide funding agencies data to
focus and coordinate support for information retrieval research.

A report authored by the participants that summarizes the results of
discussion. It includes a list of 27 "interesting" research directions,
project ideas, and challenge areas, six of which were discussed more
deeply so have lengthier discussions.